Motorola's extremely well selling Droid handset is getting ready for an Android 2.1 upgrade via Verizon. There are many goodies included in this software, stuff like a new 3D gallery app, voice to text, weather and news widgets, plus pinch to zoom.
Also, in the new software you'll find an improved ...
The hottest Android devices right now are undoubtedly Nexus One and Motorola Droid, both pictured recently using the Mozilla Fennec browser. The Mozilla team posted these teaser pics on their Facebook page, available right here.
You can see the Fennec browser running on the Google Nexus One handset (above) and on ...
A bunch of crazy programmers wanted to overclock the Motorola Droid handset, in order to make it faster than the Nexus One and they eventually did, as you can see below. Thus, the device's CPU reached 1.1GHz, although the Droid usually runs at around 600MHz.
It's true that the speed of ...
If the comparison between Samsung Omnia II's AMOLED display and the one on Nokia N900 wasn't enough, we move on to compare the screens of the hottest Android phones of the moment: Motorola Droid and Google's Nexus One. Here's a video showing how they work in direct sunlight:
Both devices have ...
A clever hacker managed to strip Android 2.1 OS from the Nexus One handset and ported its features to Motorola Droid, allowing it to support multitouch. Frankly speaking, ever since the iPhone and Palm Pre, we haven't seen multitouch smartphones handling touch interfacing so well.
Droid uses a cooked ROM, courtesy ...
Since we've just seen Android 2.1 in action on the very first Google Phone, aka the Nexus One, it was only a matter of time till developers pulled a ROM from the hat and emulated it on other devices. For now, this is the case of Moto Droid, running Android ...
Motorola Droid sold very well in the US, via Verizon, with speculations claiming that it managed to move 1 million units in the month since its launch. Now, we learn that Droid's European version, Milestone also sold pretty well in the UK, where the exclusive retailer eXpansys sold out the ...
If I were Apple, I would start trembling about now, specially because Motorola's latest Android was recently called the number one gadget of 2009 by Time magazine and now the device gets a 50% Android marketshare. See the chart below, courtesy of getclicky, for some extra details on the handset's ...
Time magazine has recently named Motorola the no. 1 gadget of 2009, making the new Android device surpass the very popular iPhone 3GS. The same publication claims that this is the first phone to challenge Apple's smartphone to a real duel.
Droid is also considered the best hardware companion to Google's ...
Motorola Droid owners should know that they'll be getting a system update today, via over the air methods on their handsets. It's the Android 2.0.1 update we're talking about, that will fix the slow autofocus issue of the camera and improve a bunch of other features.
Battery life will also get ...
